Optical and Mechanical Characteristics of Fibers Made of Arsenic Chalcogenides

Abstract

Optical and mechanical characteristics of optical fibers made of high-purity chalcogenide glasses of As-S, As-S-Se, As-Se and Ge-As-Se systems, intended for operation in the middle IR, are given. The fibers from As-S glass will be useful for transmission of IR-radiation in the 1-7 microns spectral region, the fibers on the basis of As-Se and Ge-As-Se glass systems - in the 2-12 microns region. The multimode fibers from arsenic-sulfide and arsenic-selenide glasses have the minimum optical losses equal to 23 +/-8 dB/km and 79 +/-10dB/km at 2.4 and 4.5 microns, respectively.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADP011524

Entities

People

  • G. E. Snopatin
  • I. V. Scripachev
  • M. F. Churbanov
  • V. S. Shiryaev
  • V. V. Gerasimenko

Organizations

  • Russian Academy of Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Carbon Monoxide Lasers
  • Chalcogenide Glass
  • Coatings
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Far Field
  • Fibers
  • Glass Fibers
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Numerical Aperture
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Materials
  • Radiation
  • Refractive Index

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Spectroscopy.